It’s not much: The main revelation is that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a third-string quarterback his freshman year at Princeton. The article also gives us an excuse to post the above 1954 class photo of Rumsfeld, in which he looks more like a football player than how we normally think of him: a kind of third-string supervillain plotting world domination in one of the lesser Bond movies. — CC

The Princeton man was simply excellent in executing the duties of the office. Removing the Butcher of Baghdad with minimal US casualties will be remembered as a great military accomplishment.

His performance was far superior to that of the Harvard simpleton, Elliot Richardson, or the Yalie, Leslie Aspin, Jr. The worst performance might have been the Cal Berkeley and Harvard man, Robert McNamara. Perhaps Rumsfeld’s years in the ROTC helped in his later performance. The attention to detail is evident in his dress as shown in the picture.

Regardless of political affiliation, I think we can all agree he has the same smug look he carried with him into public office. One can easily picture this Ivy Leaguer growing into the man that would proclaim “We know where they [the WMDs] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”